Finished... Almost!

I have not written for almost two weeks because I have been too busy -- or too tired at night -- to do so.  Rick has almost killed himself in an effort to get all of the slide-outs and drawers built and installed in the cabinets.  He finished this monumental task today.

We took a little time out from our project to go to Stephanie's house to help her with a couple of her projects.  She wanted her basement work room drywalled, and Rick also installed a Vroom vacuum in that area so she would have an easier time of keeping the cat's litter boxes clean.  The work was tiring, but all went well... except that I managed to break my baby toe while trying to open her draperies on Friday morning.  (Stephanie's furniture hates me!  I hooked it on a chair this time.  Three years ago, while she was moving into her house, I broke the same toe when I caught it on the leg of the bed.)  I did not waste time going to the emergency room this time.  The foot is very colorful, but it seems to be healing as I anticipated it would.

Earlier this week, we put in the bank of drawers in the cabinet next to the desk.  It gave us a ton of trouble, so we were not thrilled about putting in all of the rest.  However, yesterday we discovered that the pantry slide-outs were easier to install, probably because Rick could crawl inside the cabinet and have space to screw in the drawer slides.

Rick really gets into his work as he
screws in the shelf slides for yet another slide-out.

Rick made a "template" for positioning the other drawers and slides, so the rest of the work went more quickly once we learned how to install everything we needed.  Today, while I went to lunch with a friend whom I have ignored most of the summer  (sorry, Bonnie!), Rick installed two drawers and four slide-outs.  He was finished by the time I got home from lunch.

Rick installs rails in the file drawer for a double
set of file glides.

The room is now to the point were we are finished, at least for now.  We have to wait for Showcase Kitchens to manufacture the doors.  We will pick them up on Monday, September 24.  Then we can install all of them.  I am sure that having doors on everything will really change the look of the room, but they also will hide what we don't want to display, and they will keep things more clean and dust free.

The drawers and cabinet slide-outs are installed.

The tall cabinet holds my sewing machine and the laundry baskets.
It has room for larger items from the kitchen, too.

The laundry area is both easy to use and convenient!

Now if we can only find some time to start to use the looms!

The countertops are due in October, so we know that the room will not be completely finished until October 15.  Until then, I am enjoying having a first-floor laundry, and I cannot wait to take some time to actually USE the looms in the room.